In 2008 Nate Silver correctly predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states. The only state he missed was Indiana, which went for Barack Obama by 1%. He also correctly predicted the winner of all 35 Senate races that year.

When you idiots privatize all of our government functions, do you think the private companies are going to lose money? No, they are going to make a profit. And they are not going to do it more efficiently than government. They are just going to cut corners and inflate their estimates in order to maximize their profits. Privatization has nothing to do with economic theory - all it has to do with is certain individuals wanting to take more of the money supply from their fellow countrymen, and stealing it directly from our bank accounts is sorta frowned upon. So they find a way to get us all to pool our money together (government and taxes) and then they steal from the government. It's sad this concept can even be demonstrated with a function the government never even fulfilled (surveys about coin sales), kinda makes it that much worse when people are actively trying to co-opt efficiently-functioning parts of government just so they can rip us all off en masse.